Early one morning in November of 1972 a young boy knocks on his neighbor's door and explains that he can't find his mother. The neighbor goes to the boy's house and does find the mother, lying bludgeoned to death on the family room floor. Five hours later police find the boy's father hunting, two hours from their home. He becomes the primary suspect in his wife's murder. In the subsequent months and years the father and his sons live under the shadow of that murder trying to protect the victim's reputation and to avenge her death. Charlie is Steve Powell's first novel